Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Merriam-Webster, yes the dictionary not a person, is able to track the words that people lookup, and so determine which is in fact the most popular. To quote their press release … SPRINGFIELD, MASS., December 3, 2013—Merriam-Webster Inc., America’s leading dictionary publisher, has announced its top ten Words of the Year for 2013. This year’s … Read more
The picture below shows you one chap’s attempt at some Christmas decorations, and yes, that is just a prank, he is not really falling, that’s a dummy (put up by a dummy perhaps) … With a hat tip to Tim Kirby for sharing … here it is … The chap who did this (Greg), also … Read more
OK, a bit of fun today, nothing too serious, here now I take a quick look at my top 5 Christmas myths. 1. Jesus was Born on 25th December Hopefully most of you are indeed aware that the date, 25th December, is not actually the specific day Jesus was born. The reason is of course … Read more
Over a year ago in one of the keynote talks at the Science Writing in the Age of Denial Conference, UW–Madison genetics and molecular biology professor Sean Carroll outlined what he calls “a general manual of denialism”. That basically consisted of six tactics that have been used time and time again in denial campaigns since at … Read more
I tripped over this today and thought to myself … “Ohhh interesting” … MIT have put all their courses on-line and made them freely available to all. “The idea is simple: to publish all of our course materials online and make them widely available to everyone.” Dick K.P. Yue, Professor, MIT School of Engineering OK, … Read more
Jennifer Michael Hecht, the poet, historian, philosopher, and author, has written an article in Polotico all about the last Taboo … Atheism. She sets the stage well like this … On Real Time with Bill Maher last August, Maher asked his guest, newly retired Rep. Barney Frank, if he felt liberated now that he was a private citizen. Frank said … Read more